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Letters to Barron's about market confusion, Fed stimulus, food-stamp reform, and the latest on Fannie and Freddie.

December 14, 2013

Crossed Wires

To the Editor: There may be no more obvious indication of the disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street than the concern that a falling unemployment rate will result in a quicker end to tapering by the Federal Reserve, and subsequently lead to a stock-market drop ("Markets Trot to Eighth-Straight Weekly Gain," The Trader, Dec. 2). A lower unemployment rate, along with lower underemployment and wage increases tied more closely to productivity gains, is good news for millions of Americans on Main Street and should be cause for a market rally on Wall Street. David J. Horn Decatur, Ill....